Are iPhone cameras really that wrong about how I look?

I decided to do a kind of experiment. I used an iPhone 5 camera.

First I took a photo of me (I'm not going to sugar coat it, I looked horrific) and compared it to myself in the mirror (which looked a LOT better), I then Showed the photo to my mother, who also thought I looked horrific in the photo compared to real life (I didn't mention my own opinions when I asked her).

Then I took a photo of her, who hated her picture compared to in the mirror, and it honestly looked like she's aged 20 years in that photo, it was awful.

So all in all, are me and my mom just not photogenic, or are cameras just wrong? I mean, I know I'm not pretty, but I like to think I'm at least a step up from Gollum.

Added (1). Oh, and by the way, I know about how photos are 2D unlike the way we see people in real life, and I know about how our mirror image being a flipped version of how we actually look changes how we see ourselves.

IMessage blue and green text messages?

Today, my mom was texting on her iPhone 5c or something and she noticed that her messages were green and blue.
For example:
My mom texted one person.
Mom: hey honey (printed in blue. Sent to me)
Mom: have you done the dishes? (Printed in green, and sent to me seconds later)
So like I heard that green means you pay and blue means it's free. But she texted me within a minute and one text was green and the other one was green. Like it switched on the same person and instantly.
I know the picture pretty much explains in but: why does it switch from free messages into text messages that you pay forIMessage blue and green text messages - 1

Does AT&T keep a browser history?

I got an email with a virus that poped up a lot of inappropriate websites, this happened on my iphone witch my mom pays for! Can a history search be done or is it long in the past?

What to do to reuse lost iphone 5s?

Okay so i bought an iphone from someone i know. He said he got it from a guy, but the phone is most likely stolen or lost. Besides factory restoring this iphone what else do i need to do to be able to reuse it?

Can demons show in pictures on people's faces?

My mother took with her iPhone pictures of my grandma, my two aunts and my uncle at the cemetery when visiting my grandpa. We look at the pictures she took and all her siblings' faces but my grandma look disfigured. Like some entity was in them. My grandma was the only one looking the same

My iPhone 4s isn't installing apps?

Whenever I try to install an app from the AppStore, the AppStore says it's downloading or it's done, but it doesn't show up. It shows up in my usage just not home screen. I'm on ios 7.1.2

Will the price of the iphone 5s go down?

Currently the iphone 5s is $500 for virgin mobile and the iphone 6 is coming out next month. My question is will the 5s drop price for virgin mobile when the 6 is released and will virgin mobile get the iphone 6 when it comes out?

ITunes store not working properly?

I had a $15 iTunes card on my iPhone with about $11 left to spend so I went to clash of clans and purchased the $9.99 gems pack and i got the gems instantly… Afterwards when i went to the iTunes store to see how much i had left on my card it said i still had $11… Later on i received an email from apple with the receipt and it said i did purchase it and that it was billed to my store credit… So why didn't it take money from my card if on the receipt it said i had bought it?

Any free roam need for speed iPhone games?

I have n4s shift, shift 2, unleashed, undercover, and need for speed hot pursuit. Is there any way to free roam in any of them? If not is there any free roam/racing games with cool cars?